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Distance versus drop
Why if the earth is spinning at 1000mph a person falls from 10 stories his body didn't land about 1.4 miles away but right down as if the earth didn't spin at all
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Reality error and relative velocity
Suppose a person is walking in rain carrying an umbrella. He is tilting his umbrella at some angle with the vertical so as to protect himself from the rain. But a neutral observer who is standing ...
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Does a fly get brought up to speed with a bus?
Consider a scenario where a bus is moving at a constant speed and a fly enters through a window,the fly is also flying at a constant speed.
Since the bus is not in contact with the fly and neither is ...
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A fly in an accelerating car
A fly is flying around in a car, the fly never touches any surface in the car only fly’s around in the air inside the car. The car accelerates. does the fly slam in to the rear window. or does the fly ...
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Rolling (without slipping) ball on a moving surface 2 [duplicate]
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Rolling (without slipping) ball on a moving surface
Apparently I didn't log in properly when I asked a question this morning: Rolling (without slipping) ball on a moving ...
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Rolling (without slipping) ball on a moving surface
I've been looking at examples of a ball rolling without slipping down an inclined surface. What happens if the incline angle changes as the ball is rolling?
More precisely I've been trying to find ...
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How can kinetic energy be proportional to the square of velocity, when velocity is relative?
Let's start with kinetic energy (from los Wikipedias)
The kinetic energy of an object is the energy which it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a ...
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Bee in a vehicle [duplicate]
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Speed of a fly inside a car
Just a conceptual question: If a flying bee is inside a speeding vehicle, will it have to "fly" just as fast as the vehicle to stay aloft ...
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What will be the relative speed of the fly? [duplicate]
It has happened many times and i have ignored it everytime.
Yesterday it happened again .
I was travelling in a train and saw a fly (insect) flying near my seat.
Train was running at a speed of ...
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Why does the atmosphere rotate along with the earth?
I was reading somewhere about a really cheap way of travelling: using balloons to get ourselves away from the surface of the earth. The idea held that because the earth rotates, we should be able to ...
